Zambia local time, on April 21, Tao Luo, Chairman of the Board, Xinghu Tao, President, attended the “50th anniversary of the establishment of China- Zambia diplomatic relations and 90th birthday party of Zambian former President Kaunda” at the Chinese embassy in Lusaka. Zambia former President Kenneth Kaunda and his family, Yuxiao Zhou, Chinese ambassador in Zambia,Zulu, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Zambia and nearly a hundred governmental and business representatives of China and Zambia attended the event. 

On April 17 and 18 2014, Chairman of the Board, Tao Luo accompanied by president Xinghu Tao visited China NonferrousHuaxinMetals Leach Limited (CNHMLL), the sponsoring enterprise of Sino-Metals Leach Zambia Limited (SMLZ) in Likasi, Katanga Province of Congo (DRC). 

From March 8 to 13, 2014, CNMC vice president Li Xiaoying paid an investigative visit to a number of CNMC enterprises in Zambia, including NFC Africa Plc (NFCA), CNMC Luanshya Copper Mines Plc (CNMC Luanshya), Chambishi Copper Smelter Limited (CCS), and Sino-Metals Leach Zambia Limited (SMLZ). 

Through over 11 months’ hard work, the 20,000-ton cathode copper project of CNMC Mabende Leaching Smelter Co., Ltd. (CNMC Mabende Leaching Smelter) on the investment by Sino-Metals Leach Zambia Limited (SMLZ), an enterprise of CNMC in Zambia, successfully produced the first batch of cathode copper at 14:30pm on March 14, 2014.